For the time [is come] that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if [it] first [begin] at us, what shall the end [be] of them that obey not the gospel of God?
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Car c'est le moment où le jugement va commencer par la maison de Dieu. Or, si c'est par nous qu'il commence, quelle sera la fin de ceux qui n'obéissent pas à l'Evangile de Dieu?
KJV
For the time [is come] that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if [it] first [begin] at us, what shall the end [be] of them that obey not the gospel of God?
Thomas Aquinas
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
ccount,” because the beginning of the judgment is that it begin from the house of God. [margin note: 1 Pet 4:17 ] At His beginning to take account there is brought unto Him one who owes Him many talents; one, that is, who had wrought great evils; one on whom much had been enjoine…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 158 (Migne)
ncipit nunc rationem ponere , quoniam sicut Petrus ait: Tempus est, ut incipiat judicium a domo Dei (I Pet. IV, 17) . Incipit rationem ponere , quando per infirmitatis molestiam ad lectum et ad mortem pertrahit homines, ut eos de singulis actibus suis in judicio discutiens, ratio…
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